When you spend most of your career as a corporate executive for a large company, there may come a point where you may think if I am going to work this hard, I am going to build a brand of my own. That’s what happened to Sandy Cataldo and Lynn Welsh Emmolo, two former Beauty executives with a penchant for perfume and painting
As our society has become more reliant on technology, people enjoy getting back in touch with hand-crafted items, both as creators and purchasers. There’s something special about things that have been created directly by the artisan rather than mass produced in a factory.
No – I want something that gets modern the hard way. Something that has all the class of the past, but smells new and fresh. Something that is timeless enough to be then, now, and forever after.
Like the best artists Ms. Buchanan has been taking her time and making sure the compositions she releases are what she wants them to be. I admire an artist that takes their time in the pursuit of their vision and Ms. Buchanan certainly seems to fall into that category.-Mark Behnke
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is one of those perfumers who always have something interesting to tell me when I get a new set of fragrances to try. Her latest set of releases due to be released in the next couple of months have her returning to a botanical framework and with two of the three looking eastward for inspiration. All three will be excellent fragrances for the fall and even though I’ve been testing them in the summer heat they still manage to show off their quality.
The French word haute has several meanings: high, tall, loud-pitched, early [usage in antiquity, the Middle Ages], far back in time, noble, high-ranking, Claire has many plausible definitions as well: light, fair, bright, neat, pure, clear, pale, plain, evident
I have worn Haute Claire for several days now, and for me it is pure nobility, pure and simple
